title: Stories of family, stories of self: developmental pathways to interpretive thought during adolescence.
abstract: Research has shown that a hallmark of adolescent development is the growing capacity to interpret human intentionality. In this chapter, the authors examine developmental change in this capacity, which they have termed interpretive thought, in two types of stories, family and autobiographical, told by Canadian youth aged ten to seventeen years. Illustrative examples reveal that youth coordinate an increasing number of psychological components and in so doing, create increasingly abstract and coherent psychological profiles of self and others.
authors.affiliation: University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McKeough
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Malcolm
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D033262:Narration; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011908:Rationalization; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification